The 2nd Iberoamerican and Iberophony Forum, organized by the Iberoamerican University Foundation (FUNIBER), has been the focus of attention during the interview with the professor of the Universidad Europea del Atlántico (European University of the Atlantic, UNEATLANTICO) and Director of Institutional Relations and of the FUNIBER Chair of Ibero-American Studies and Iberophony, Dr. F. Álvaro Durántez Prados, in the program “Noche tras Noche” (Night after Night) of Radiotelevision of the Principality of Asturias (Radiotelevisión del Principado de Asturias, RTPA).
During the interview, conducted by Marcos Vega, Dr. Durántez emphasized the importance of the 2nd Iberoamerican and Iberophony Forum in an international context as intense as the current one.
In this second edition of the Forum, the Ambassador of the League of Arab States to the Kingdom of Spain, Malek Twal, will participate to give a lecture on “The Challenges of Global Diplomacy.”
Likewise, the Angolan ambassador, Alfredo Dombe, will intervene, in the north of Spain, together with Dr. Durántez, Professor Gustavo Bueno, and the Consul General of Uruguay, Ramiro Rodríguez Bausero, in a round table discussion on “The importance of diplomacy in international relations.” This will be an opportunity to explain how diplomatic mechanisms work and how they favor relations between peoples and nations, with a particular focus on Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries.
2nd Iberoamerican and Iberophony Forum
The Forum, which will take place in the city of Oviedo, will begin on Monday 5 with a conference given by FUNIBER’s Director of Institutional Relations at the headquarters of the Gustavo Bueno Foundation. In his lecture, entitled “The Articulation of the Multinational Space of Iberophony. State of affairs”, he will present the progress achieved in the articulation of the Iberophony Space in the last two years. Precisely, in this conference, he will give continuity to the dissertation he gave in the same place two years ago.
FUNIBER and the Gustavo Bueno Foundation collaborate in the design and development of academic programs in the Area of Philosophy, such as the Specialization in Fundamentals of Philosophy.
Previous editions
The 1st Iberoamerican and Iberophony Forum was held on September 27, 2023, at Torre de los Lujanes in Madrid, headquarters of the Real Royal Matritense Economic Society of Friends of the Country (Sociedad Económica Matritense de Amigos del País, RSEMAP). It was organized and promoted by FUNIBER and the Ibero-American Communication Association (ASICOM), and was attended by the highest representatives of the institutions —Dr. Santos Gracia, president of FUNIBER, and Dr. Carlos Fernández Collado, president of ASICOM— as well as prominent diplomats: Marlon Brevé Reyes, Ambassador of Honduras; Antonio Cristovão, Minister-Counselor of the Embassy of Angola; Liz Coronel, Chargé d’Affaires of the Embassy of Paraguay; and Victo Velho, First Secretary of the Embassy of Mozambique.
The event concluded with the signing of two partnership agreements: one between FUNIBER and the Embassy of the Republic of Honduras and another between the Iberoamerican University Foundation and ASICOM.